The life and times of a motoring and motor rallying journalist in Scotland

Friday, 2 October 2015

Rally - Last Call

If you have a rally car sitting in a garage
and want to use it on a forest event next year in Scotland then best get
yourself along to a rather unique meeting being hosted by the Scottish Rally
Championship tomorrow (Sat. 3rd Oct.) in Perth.

The event is being chaired by Competitors’ Representative
Susan Shanks who has invited all SRC registered crews to the meeting in the
Holiday Inn Express in Dunkeld Road.

Why the urgency? Next year, there might be only four forest
rallies, or there could be six, but probably not eight. Hence the need to find
out what competitors think and want.

There is no secret agenda at work here, the SRC are keen to
hear competitors’ views - and rally organisers NEED to hear competitors’ views.

Susan said: “I have ideas I want to cover and have already received
emails from some people who cannot make Saturday so these will be used to kick
off. I want to see the forum led by the
competitors. We are not entertaining any talk of the safety rules etc, these
are here to stay, this is all about how we can go forward.”

If you can’t make it, email her your thoughts and questions,
but be brief for gawd’s sake, the poor soul is already half frazzled! However don’t raise your expectations too
high. Not everyone will share the same opinions and views, so there will have
to be compromise, but to be part of the debate you have to be there.

And if you don’t do it and don’t like what is served up next
year, then who is to blame? The SRC are trying to do something positive – for all
our benefit.

It’s set to get underway at 2pm tomorrow. Be there – or take
up gardening.